Historia imprescindible para curiosos

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

Con la llegada al Nuevo Mundo, los cronistas espa oles tuvieron la funci n de relatar a Europa c mo era el territorio reci n descubierto. Algunos se dedicaron a describir poblaciones ind genas y su cultura. Otros, como Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo, registraron las especies de animales y plantas aut ctonas, de cuya vida y obra se comenta en este libro.

Este libro de Karl Jaspers no es un aporte mas a la bibliografia suscitada por el pensamiento de Nietzsche sino un verdadero hito en la historia de la filosofia. Jaspers plantea la singularidad extrema del hombre que influyo en tantas personalidades del mundo contemporaneo -desde Freud, Jung y Heidegger hasta Hannah Arendt, Foucault y Deleuze- y pone de manifiesto el aspecto revulsivo de sus actitudes y actividades, que tantas incomprensiones y malentendidos acarrearon en el tiempo en que le toco vivir y en los anos que siguieron. Aparte de aclarar el significado de muchos vocablos personales ...

Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.